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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair against warm orange background, red text "Fred <3" at bottom.

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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair against warm orange background, red text "Fred <3" at bottom.

Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair against warm orange background, red text "Fred <3" at bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a person with long dark hair and light skin, facing right with a slight smile. Warm orange gradient background. Red text "Fred <3" in blocky font at bottom center on black rectangular background. The text includes the name "Fred" followed by a heart symbol made from a less-than sign and the number 3. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair against warm orange background, red text "Fred <3" at bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809042023102085630429

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Fred <3 pixelated icon
  • orange background red text icon
  • person smiling pixel art
  • blocky font Fred <3 icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims

Visible Text

  • Fred <3

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • light skin
  • facing right
  • slight smile
  • orange background
  • red text
  • Fred <3
  • blocky font
  • black text background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809042023102085630429
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/783c656fc731f973a17d7a51e85e16e92cf498e8a3c5fa1b9bddd4e02cae3bb1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
783c656fc731f973
SHA-256
783c656fc731f973a17d7a51e85e16e92cf498e8a3c5fa1b9bddd4e02cae3bb1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:05 UTC
Run
1053
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080868

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Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair against warm orange background, red text "Fred <3" at bottom.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,591 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 662

Review tags

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  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • text (object, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • facing right
  • smiling

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • black
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a person with long dark hair and light skin, facing right with a slight smile. Warm orange gradient background. Red text "Fred <3" in blocky font at bottom center on black rectangular background. The text includes the name "Fred" followed by a heart symbol made from a less-than sign and the number 3. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with long dark hair against warm orange background, red text "Fred <3" at bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809042023102085630429

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • friendly
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Fred <3 pixelated icon
  • orange background red text icon
  • person smiling pixel art
  • blocky font Fred <3 icon

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Fred <3

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • light skin
  • facing right
  • slight smile
  • orange background
  • red text
  • Fred <3
  • blocky font
  • black text background
  • pixelated
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200809042023102085630429
Archive entry
200809042023102085630429.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809042023102085630429.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809042023102085630429.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016